KUALA LUMPUR: MySejahtera check-ins may soon be a thing of the past if the Covid-19 transmission trend in the country remains stabilised.
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the ministry would first need to monitor the pattern of mobility versus infection within the next few weeks.
"As we reopen the borders and ease restrictions in the fasting month, we would need to see if there are any drastic changes in the mobility and infection patterns for the next few weeks.
"If there are no significant fluctuations, then we can drop (MySejahtera check-ins)."
Khairy said this after closing the National Integrated Weight Management Programme at the Health Ministry, here, today.
The standard operating procedure requiring temperature checks and the manual recording of personal particulars for entry in premises was dropped from Feb 11.
The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) earlier today said it was time to consider dropping the use of Covid-19 MySejahtera application for contact tracing, as the country transitions into the endemic phase.
Its president Dr Koh Kar Chai said with the high Covid-19 transmissions in the community, the application's scanning features were no longer useful compared to when they were during the earlier stages of the pandemic.
He said since the application had been adopted by the majority of the people, it can be put to better use.
Dr Koh also suggested for the application's contact tracing features to be preserved, in preparation for any possible pandemic in the future.
On a related matter, Khairy said the issue of MySejahtera application ownership was still being discussed.
"This will take some time as it is a technical issue. The discussions have been ongoing for quite some time, there are still several issues that need to be resolved.
"I think it would take about a month (to be resolved)," he said.
Khairy stressed that the data in the mobile application was being stored in a secure server.
Last Sunday, Khairy had refuted claims that the government had sold the MySejahtera application to a private entity.
He had said the government had, on Nov 26 last year, decided that MySejahtera would be the government's property and appointed the Health Ministry as the main owner of the application for the country's public health management.